
One day, some years ago, a good friend of mine gave me a book full of tales as a present for my birthday. One of them was about a circus elephant who lived prisoner, chained to a weak wooden peg. A little boy asked himself why, being so big and strong, the elephant never tried to free itself, and after years of fruitless search someone gave him the answer: when the elephant was still a baby, they took it prisoner and chained it to that same...